tumblring the flipping hell out of everything this week.
"New insight into a typically taboo subject has found that many women in their 60s, 70s and 80s have more, not less, sexual desire, know more ...

While mass incarceration is a dominant social issue involving men, it is also increasingly affecting women of colour. Black women are three times more likely to be incarcerated than white women, and H...

Kathleen Siddell makes a impassioned plea for us to examine the ways in which we impose gender norms on girls and boys. As well as arguing that little boys should learn to be kind and fair and polit...

New statistics reveal that one in 10 women is threatened with "revenge porn" (i.e. the sharing of intimate/ sexual images online as an act of "revenge"):
"In reality, the abusers are numerous — accor...

“Subject to Debate” is an email discussion between The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt and former executive editor Betsy Reed, now editor in chief of the Intercept, as they reflect on the state of con...

According to a new study by Media Matters for America, four New York City television stations consistently reported crimes by black people at a higher rate than their arrest rates. (Chart to the right...

[...] There are more insidious and less obvious threats. These dangers hide in plain sight, and come partly in the form of a version of feminism known as “choice feminism”. This term is used to refer ...

Cultural associations link men, but not women, with raw intellectual brilliance… consider, for example, how difficult it is to think of even a single pop-cultural portrayal of a woman who displays tha...

If you don’t understand what it’s like to live in this world as a woman, ask a woman (there’s one thing Sigman is right on: talking to women). If you think it’s so unattractive for women to have insec...

When feminists decry rape culture in the U.S., they’re not suggesting life for American women is literally a constant struggle to avoid being raped. No one’s saying we face the same level of sexual vi...

A study published this month in the journal Sex Roles reveals that some of the sexism women face – from catcalling and sexual harassment to sexual objectification and violence – makes women generally ...

Representation is vitally important for children. Study after study and expert after expert says that when kids see people like them positively portrayed in the media they consume, they are positively...

“One of the most common derisive taunts thrown at feminists – and one of the oldest – is “manhater”. It’s been around since the days of suffrage, and still gets used today, though its a pretty anodyne...